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01-16-2025, 06:20 PM
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Winnebago Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner RV Trip Wizard
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Kwikee step removal
I've spent most of the afternoon working on this but to make a long story short, one of the bolts on the Kwikee steps on my 2004 Itasca Sunrise has sheared off even with the mounting plate. For the life of me I can't figure out how to access the bolt from the top to replace it. I tried to access it from underneath the step through the battery compartment but have absolutely no idea how to get to it.
My next plan is to remove two of the remaining nuts and loosen the third one to swing the steps out of the way, remove the broken bolt, install a rivet nut, and place a bolt from underneath the steps.
Any other ideas?????
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01-17-2025, 01:03 AM
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If you are talking about the captured bolts that extend through the step plate from above to hold the step's gear mechanism, you might need to loosen the hardware that holds the step plate to the frame in order to gain access to that bolt. I've seen a YouTube video where a person needed to do that because he pushed one of the captured bolts up and out of its hole as he was trying to install a new gear unit to fix the step. If you have access to a borescope, that might aide your understanding of how to access that area as well.
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01-17-2025, 04:26 AM
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Not sure if my experience applies here. I had one of the bolts that holds the grear box to the mounting plate brake a few years ago. I had to disconnect the arm that controls the movement of the step. Once that arm was free, I unbolted the four bolts holding the metal mounting plate to the frame. Once that was done I was able to gain access to the bolts that hold the gear stuff to the mounting plate. Went to hardware store got four new hardened bolts and put things back together.
Again do not know if this applies to you or not.
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01-17-2025, 09:42 AM
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Thanks for the ideas and suggestions and I'll file them away for future reference.
The bolts I'm referring to are the ones that attach the frame of the steps to the motor home itself. For the life of me I can't figure out how to access them. I would think you should be able to remove the tread from the first step inside the motor home but I just don't see how to do that. I was able to find a YouTube video where the gentleman replaced his steps and it showed two access holes in the tread. I lifted the rubber tread in my motor home and it looks like it is glued to the metal tread itself with no visible mounting holes for these bolts underneath.
I'm stumped so far but there's always hope.....
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01-17-2025, 01:44 PM
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Finally! Success!!
For those that might be interested in the solution, I ended up having to remove the entire step assembly and found it was bolted to a c-channel mounted to the coach. I thought it would be a simple matter of replacing the bolt but it was welded in place. I ended up removing the c-channel to gain access, grinding off the bolt head and welding another bolt. Whoever said the step assembly was heavy wasn't kidding!! Anyway, I reassembled everything and, just like that, Bob's your uncle! it is much more stable now than it has been the entire time we've owned our coach! I'm just glad it happened at home instead of on the road somewhere.
Now I can revel in this accomplishment until the next fiasco when things turn to crap.......
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2004 Itasca Sunrise 34D, 8.1L, Workhorse W20 Chassis
2023 GMC Canyon AT4, NSA Ready Brute Elite II, BlueOx Base Plate
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01-17-2025, 07:01 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by be-happy
I had one of the bolts that holds the grear box to the mounting plate brake a few years ago
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Probably didn't "brake", which is what happens when we press the "brake" pedals in vehicles.
You might mean "break", a totally different meaning.
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01-18-2025, 04:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AveryF
Finally! Success!!
For those that might be interested in the solution, I ended up having to remove the entire step assembly and found it was bolted to a c-channel mounted to the coach. I thought it would be a simple matter of replacing the bolt but it was welded in place. I ended up removing the c-channel to gain access, grinding off the bolt head and welding another bolt. Whoever said the step assembly was heavy wasn't kidding!! Anyway, I reassembled everything and, just like that, Bob's your uncle! it is much more stable now than it has been the entire time we've owned our coach! I'm just glad it happened at home instead of on the road somewhere.
Now I can revel in this accomplishment until the next fiasco when things turn to crap.......
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Thank you for posting your results and end to your thread.
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